Improvement in scholars  companions



L. B. SGI-IAEFER & HENN INGS.

Scholafs Companion.

Patented May 13, 1 879.

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NVPETERS. PHDTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATEs PATENT Orrron.

LUDWIG B. SOHAEFER AND HENRY HENNINGS, OF BALTIMORE, MD.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCHOLAR S COMPANIONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,399, dated May 13,1879 application filed March 25, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LUDWIG B. SCHAEFER and HENRY HENNINGS, of Baltimorecity, State of Maryland, have invented a new and Improved ScholarsCompanion and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view from the front, with the doors open. Fig.2 is a perspective view from the rear.

The object of our invention is to provide for school-children aconvenient means for carrying their school-books, pencils,pencil-sharpener, pens, sponge, slate, rag, erasers, penwiper, &c.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of areceptacle for transporting and keeping in place the various smallarlicles, and in the combination therewith of two cross-straps forsecuring the books, and a loop for transporting the same upon the 'arm,as hereinafter more fully described.

sustained in upright position, to a shallow upper portion. In the bottomportion of thereceptacle are formed two compartments, a a, one of whichis adapted to receive the slate-rag, and the other of which receives thesponge. Just above these compartments (4 a the front of the case isclosed in by two hinged doors, b 1), meeting in the middle, and adaptedto be fastened by a button, 0, or other equivalent fastening. One ofthese doors is provided upon its inside surface with a pen-wiper, d, andat its edge where it laps over the other door it is lined witlra stripof fabric or rubber, e, which deadens the noise of closing the box. Whenthese doors are opened the back of the box is exposed, and the shallowcharacter of the upper end permits the ready access of the hand to thepen 'and pencils arranged therein. For securing these articlesexpansible pockets B B, made of plaited or folded fabric, leather, orrubber cloth, are secured to the back of the box. These pockets are madeof difierent lengths, to receive different lengths of pencils, pens, orcrayons, and they all extend to the bottom of the box, in the rear ofthe sponge and rag compartments. To cause them to tightly hold thearticles against rattling about in the case, the edges of these pocketsare re-enforced by elastic bands of rubber, f,'\vhich are provided withknobshaped buttons j", which are to be used as handles to distend theelastic band to permit the insertion or removal of the articles.Additional elastic bands with similar handles may be arranged upon thesides of the box or above the pockets, as shown, if desirable.

Upon each side of the receptacle is a steel file, g. One has a coarsecutting-surface, for sharpening slate-pencils, and the other a finercutting-surface, for sharpening lead-pencils.

- For carrying the books, we arrange upon' the back of the box twocross-straps, O C. One of these, 0, is affixed lengthwise to the box byrivets, and has a loop, h, at its upper end, and a buckle, i. The otherof these straps, 0, passes through a keeper, j, of the first mentionedstrap, at right angles thereto, and has a buckle, k. These two straps,it will be seen, are buckled lengthwise and crosswise around the books,and serve to tightly fasten the books and the receptacle A together, theloop h at the upper end permitting the arm or hand to be inserted, forthe purpose of transporting the device.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- 1. Thereceptacle or box A, made of tapering form longitudinally, of leastdepth at the top, and provided with doors I) I), compart- ,ments a a,and expansible pockets B B, sub

stantially as and for the purpose described.

2'. 111 a scholars companion, the plaited or folded pockets B, having amarginal elastic band provided with buttons or handles, as and for thepurpose described. 3. The combination, with the receptacle A, of thestrap 0, secured to said receptacle, and having loop h, and the strap 0,arranged at right angles to the first, substantially as described, andfor the purpose set forth.

The above specification of our invention signed by us this 22d day ofMarch, 1879.

LUDWIG B. SGHAEFER. HENRY .HENNINGS.

Witnesses: Enw. W. BYRN, (has. 'A. PETTIT.-

